I registered for microsoft email some time ago. I used it for some time but found the service too stringent. They kept informing me to update my email password. This is tricky since one tends to forget or fail to record the last password you used. Anybody with experience in using Microsoft email?

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Well, its for your own safety. However, this kind of a thing rarely happens. Maybe you try to access your mail from different locations, maybe you use a vpn or something. MS regards certain vpn services as suspicious as well.

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From my experience in using Outlook/Hotmail on my old account, I feel like it's trying to be Google, but not quite getting there. Maybe if they were ahead of the curb in terms of intuitive design and features, maybe they could have beat Gmail, but I feel like it's too clunky to make that assumption otherwise.

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From my experience in using Outlook/Hotmail on my old account, I feel like it's trying to be Google, but not quite getting there. Maybe if they were ahead of the curb in terms of intuitive design and features, maybe they could have beat Gmail, but I feel like it's too clunky to make that assumption otherwise.

I think gmail is the king of emails right now and it is not about to be toppled.

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Yepp Gmail is the king and there is a reason for that - they listen to their customers. While microsoft, yahoo, and all the other email service providers have not changed the structure and look and feel of their services the same, gmail has evolved. It has become smarter. You can do better searches (anyone who's tried to search through yahoomail knows what I'm talking about), you can segregate emails under different emails, and you can "personalize" how you receive your emails.

The only place I feel that google hasn't focused on is a desktop email client. People on linux use Thunderbird, on windows use outlook, and Unibox? on mac (I wouldn't know since I don't own a mac). An email client is really essential. I have a mobile email client too because frankly I have a bunch of email addresses (work, play, marketing,etc.) and I want all of them to open up in one place. This is where I feel that Microsoft has always stayed ahead of Google, though anyone who has used open-source or third-party email clients knows that Microsoft isn't doing a great job in this regard either.

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Yepp Gmail is the king and there is a reason for that - they listen to their customers. While microsoft, yahoo, and all the other email service providers have not changed the structure and look and feel of their services the same, gmail has evolved. It has become smarter. You can do better searches (anyone who's tried to search through yahoomail knows what I'm talking about), you can segregate emails under different emails, and you can "personalize" how you receive your emails.

The only place I feel that google hasn't focused on is a desktop email client. People on linux use Thunderbird, on windows use outlook, and Unibox? on mac (I wouldn't know since I don't own a mac). An email client is really essential. I have a mobile email client too because frankly I have a bunch of email addresses (work, play, marketing,etc.) and I want all of them to open up in one place. This is where I feel that Microsoft has always stayed ahead of Google, though anyone who has used open-source or third-party email clients knows that Microsoft isn't doing a great job in this regard either.

To my knowledge Google has been advertising for desktop notifications, but other then that there really isn't any attempt to create a client which has surprised me considering how notorious other email providers are. Same goes for Yahoo!.